Chapter 15 - Where did you find this funny man?

"Call me when you are done." Manager Jeong glances at their hands once. "Don't forget. If you break it off, there will be no chocolate for you ever."

"That's cruel." Right now, Kang Si An is craving chocolates actually. Everything is stressing him out a lot.

"Don't get into trouble." Manager Jeong warns them and then, she gets into the car.

"Why I am doing this?" Kwon Kyuri mumbles to herself while watching the car run away from them. Kang Si An sighs heavily. He is wearing a mask and sunglasses to not attract attention. It's not much helpful. Even if he hides his face, Kwon Kyuri is famous now as his girlfriend.

"Let go of my hand now." She tries to shake his hand off, wildly. "Everyone is watching us."

"I can't let go." He nearly shouts at her. "Didn't you hear her warning?"

"For chocolates?" She lifts her hand near his neck, bȧrėly resisting the urge to break his neck. Her face contorts with anger. "Kang Si An, she is not here now. She won't find out."

"She can tell." Kang Si An recalls the times when Manager Jeong could always find out when he lied. "That person is not human. She can tell by looking."

"Kyuri?"

Just their luck! A man, dressed in jeans and white shirt, appears in front of them. He glares at her and says, "We have been waiting for hours. Where have you been?"

"Elder brother, why did you come too?"

Recently, I have had a feeling that I have spent all the luck of my life. I know that my parents are visiting me because of the call that the cops made to my house. But, I had no idea that my elder brother is here too.

"Mother called me yesterday night. She told me that you have been kidnapped." His eyes move to our hands. I feel like digging a hole and burying myself. I am going to have a hard life from now on.

"Why are you holding his hand?" My elder brother asks me with a straight face.

"We are...doing...a type of college activity to spread friendship..." I wreak my brain to come up with a lie. Lying to my family especially him has never been easy. They can easily guess it. I can fool the entire world, but not them.

"Nice to meet you. My name is Kang Si An." Kang Si An takes off his sunglasses and mask. "I am her boyfriend."

"..." You are not supposed to say that.

"Boyfriend?" My elder brother takes a glance at me and then, he watches him carefully. "I saw the news. I know my sister. I can tell that your relationship is fake."

"That's not true." Kang Si An leans closer to me. "I know that it is hard to believe."

I whisper to him. "Do you want to die?"

"Are you threatening me?" He whispers back. "I am trying to..."

"This is my family."

"I know. Why doesn't he believe us?"

"Because you are not good enough for her." We jump in surprise when we notice that my elder brother is standing close to us, listening to our whispers. He grabs our held hands and pulls them apart by force. "Kyuri is too much for you to handle. Someone like you can never be good enough for her."

"Elder brother." I rub my forehead. "He is my boyfriend."

"And the sun rises from the west." My brother doesn't believe me at all. "Kyuri, how many times have you lied to me?"

"Uh..." If I start counting, I am afraid that it will take the entire day. I don't think that he wants to hear the number.

"Don't count." He smiles at me, but he is slightly mad. "Mother and father are waiting. Let's go."

He grabs my wrist and pulls toward him. Kang Si An pulls my other arm. I stumble and falls into his arms. He wraps his other arm around my shoulders. His voice is deep and loud when he says, "I love her. I understand that I am not good enough for her, but I will try my best to become better. I will never let go of her. If it takes the sun to rise from the west, then I will make the sun rise from the west."

My heart skips beats. Not one or two. I am afraid that he can also feel my drumming loud heart. I would be lying if I say that I didn't like it. His scent. His warmth against my back. His tone of voice. If I didn't know about the contract between us or my murder by his hands, I would have believed him.

I can't see his eyes, but my brother lets go of my wrist. He sighs and asks me, "Where did you find this funny man?"

"It's a long story," I tell him quietly.

My brother and father are born normally. But, they are highly intuitive and practically a walking lie detector. My mother and I could never lie to them. Even if I know the future, it's better to not say anything at all than tell them a lie.

And there is one more thing. My father and my brother are highly protective of me.

"Hey." Kang Si An glares at me. "Did you forget?"

I wonder if he is talking about the contract.

"Forget what?" My brother asks him with an expressionless face. "What did she forget?"

"Pickles." I blink my eyes at Kang Si An. "We forgot grandma's pickles. I left it at your home."

"You forgot grandma's pickles at his home?" My brother frowns deeply. "You were at his home?"

Oh, that's not the right thing to say. I try to prevent the fire from spending. I can't lie. but, I can hide the truth.

"Yes, she spent the night at my home." Kang Si An opens his mouth and throws petrol on the spreading fire that I am trying to extinguish before it can cause the chaos. "I went to pick her up from her part-time job."